Urban Illustration with Procreate
The color palette
A course by Vincent Mahé , Illustrator
About the video: The color palette
Overview
“I am going to explain some theoretical notions of color to you. I'll tell you about my approach to color and why I chose to work with a limited number of colors. ”
In this video lesson Vincent Mahé addresses the topic: The color palette, which is part of the Domestika online course: Urban Illustration with Procreate. Learn to observe a city and turn your sketches into narrative drawings by discovering all the secrets of a professional illustrator.
Partial transcription of the video
“The color palette In this lesson, we are going to talk about color. I'm going to tell you about my approach to color, how i got here. Then we will choose our palette as well as the atmosphere that will be put in the illustration. Here is a picture I took one morning quite early. It seems to me quite telling in terms of colors. We have a dominant blue and a dominant orange. It's a range that I often work with. My approach to color is quite simple. Initially, I had difficulty using color. I went to limited color techniques, like screen printing which uses two or three colors. Over the years, ...”
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Course summary for: Urban Illustration with Procreate
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Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration

Vincent Mahé
A course by Vincent Mahé
Based in Paris, Vincent Mahé is an illustrator with a passion for cities, their movement, and their architecture. After studying animation drawing at Gobelins, he gradually built his career as an illustrator by walking for hours in Paris, sketchbook in hand. The turning point came with his first collaboration with the magazine XXI.
Since then, he has collaborated with Télérama, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, public institutions such as the Lyon Auditorium and the Grand Paris, as well as big brands like Kenzo, Apple, Google, and even Facebook.
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